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I will use the Chuggaaconroy situation to say that, despite the wrongdoing, we should not hold this against him until the end of time. The Completionist and Illuminaughtii situations of the past year have shown us the type of deplorable people that truly deserve to be deplatformed forever, and this just isn't one of them.
This is to say, for the comparatively (key word comparatively) minor issues like this, given time and clear genuine regret, we should give these creators another chance to create. This doesn't just go for Chugga, but past controversies like Mini Ladd and Nappy. Let them build themselves back up again, and if they even so much as send another bad message, send them back to the brig.
This post is not to downplay those hurt in any way by these creators. The things they did were terrible in their own right even if they're not as bad as the bigger bads on the internet. We just risk a worse spiral in these people if we don't leave room for rehabilitation.
We also can't see a change from them if we don't allow them the chance to do so. And if they don't decide to come back, I hope we all can wish them the best of luck on the road to recovery. There is something inherently wrong happening in these cases to lead down paths like pedophilia, so we should at least stay sympathetic and positive toward people who are actually trying to better themselves. Perhaps a "good job getting help, but don't push it" type approach could fit well here.
This post is also not here to cover for or condone Chugga's actions; I'm just using him to express a thought I've had for a while. If you disagree, that's fine too. I understand that this is a radical thought on a difficult topic.
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I will use the Chuggaaconroy situation to say that, despite the wrongdoing, we should not hold this against him until the end of time. The Completionist and Illuminaughtii situations of the past year have shown us the type of deplorable people that truly deserve to be deplatformed forever, and this just isn't one of them.
This is to say, for the comparatively (key word comparatively) minor issues like this, given time and clear genuine regret, we should give these creators another chance to create. This doesn't just go for Chugga, but past controversies like Mini Ladd and Nappy. Let them build themselves back up again, and if they even so much as send another bad message, send them back to the brig.
This post is not to downplay those hurt in any way by these creators. The things they did were terrible in their own right even if they're not as bad as the bigger bads on the internet. We just risk a worse spiral in these people if we don't leave room for rehabilitation.
We also can't see a change from them if we don't allow them the chance to do so. And if they don't decide to come back, I hope we all can wish them the best of luck on the road to recovery. There is something inherently wrong happening in these cases to lead down paths like pedophilia, so we should at least stay sympathetic and positive toward people who are actually trying to better themselves. Perhaps a "good job getting help, but don't push it" type approach could fit well here.
This post is also not here to cover for or condone Chugga's actions; I'm just using him to express a thought I've had for a while. If you disagree, that's fine too. I understand that this is a radical thought on a difficult topic.
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going into a new month i intended to never bring up the stuff that happened with chuggaaconroy and leave it in january but i found this thread by alfe5, amber! those who watched therunawayguys mario party ds lets play might remember they played on a cartridge she gave them, when they hung out with her with the make a wish foundation- really wonderful person! this thread is her thoughts on the entire situation and she does a really wonderful job breaking it down!
i left out the more explicit parts but you can read the whole thread here
and. wow. this absolutely turned this entire situation around for me.
like most others i kinda just saw what werster posted and was just. in shock, didnt touch it. gave up on chugga, disgusted.
but after seeing this i actually read it and
that. that was just a 14 year old chatlog of some kid trying to flirt with 19 year old emile while he was just trying to talk about earthbound the entire time. Huh.
lady emily is already a superrr unreliable source since shes been known to falsely accuse autistic youtubers to take them down so that combined with "wait they had to dig up stuff from 2010 and then literally lie about what it was..?
i mean. everyone was a horrible person on the internet in 2010. if any youtuber had a chatlog from 2010 leaked theyd be doomed tbh
but wow. this really was nothing more than an ableist scheme to attack and give a mental breakdown to an autistic youtuber who was already dealing with the loss of his cat. nothing more than a pathetic attack to use the horrible people of twitter to harass a good person off the internet
now, emile isnt entirely innocent. i do agree that what happened with masae was really unsettling and bad. but hes going to therapy and taking a long time to work on himself and im happy about that! this break is something that should happen, and i really hope he becomes a better person.
im disappointed in him, but i also think people tried too hard to stretch this to every extreme imaginable (especially when.. only one of the three things stated were actually true). and im really sorry to masaeanela
in the end though, this isnt really a "good or evil" situation. nobody is just good or just evil. chugga did bad things but had also done so many good things, that in the end. so long as nothing like this ever happens again, and he takes his therapy seriously, i will be more than happy to forgive him and welcome him back
the internets already such a negative place, most youtubers Suuuck honestly, ive watched so many gaming youtubers and found them unwatchable with how angey and negative they are- but wow, they really saw one gleaming light of positivity and passion, and were Downright Desperate to crush it
im so sorry i doubted you chuggaaconroy
and i really hope hes okay.
it sucks that things will never go back to normal, its easy to convince the masses of something negative, its impossible to convince the masses of something possitive. and that seemed to be lady emily, antdude, werster, and whoever elses intention. a beacon of light and happiness in the gaming youtube space? close the blinds on it, negativity is whats supposed to get likes and we dont want our negative content getting less because of it. disgusting
i hate to bring this here because this is a twitter thing and should have stayed a twitter thing but the chuggaaconroy tag is full of people who came here from twitter trying to make this spread across the entire internet which Suuucks. but if this drama is on tumblr, then tumblr needs to see ambers thread too. its the last seal on this horrible ordeal, and the first step to a brighter future
anyways support autistic people always. dont listen to twitter and let them drown their brain in their obsession with negativity. and, also part of supporting autistic people, watch chuggaaconroy! thats what im gonna be doing! id recommend his animal crossing new leaf lets play its an amazing one! or his pokemon black/white lets play or his splatoon lets play or his kid icarus uprising lets play or his super mario 64 ds lets play or, any really!
i hope he can come back one day. this drama will wash away and be forgotten as twitter finds a new target, but i hope chugga will return someday, even if things wont be the same. the internet needs beacons of hope like that so badly, no matter how hard twitter will try to tear them down
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More uncle submas and nephew Drayton (featuring Blanc) because I love their dynamic.
Slight headcannon but I imagine being partially raised by pokemon is a pretty common thing. With the amount of protags only having one parental figure, I imagine sometimes they'd need some help taking care of the kids. Since pokemon can be pretty intelligent and some of them have been partner pokemon with the parent since childhood, so they're pretty trusted.
So basically, Drayton can go around saying "oh that's my spider mum" at Blueberry academy and it would be a normal sentence.
Also fun fact, Drayton can't tell the twins apart out of uniform. I personally imagine Ingo and Emmet have very different fashion tastes out of uniform but sometimes they like to dress the same to test their loved ones. Drayton fails every time. Don't judge him, I'm an adult and sometimes I can't tell my twin dad and uncle apart.
Also, yeh, Blanc would adopt Kieran if she could. That boy needs some help and it's coming in the form of a clingy mum spider. She'll treat him right. Why is she at Blueberry academy? I imagine the twins would visit Drayton sometimes. They're good uncles.
It took a while for the joltiks to warm up to Drayton. Until they realised he's just a giant joltik and accepted him as their own.
Also, yes, if you could translate what Emmets joltik are saying, they would all speak in train lingo. They don't understand it fully but it's all they know.
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so update on the chuggaaconroy scandal: emile and emily had already talked this out and made their peace with one another months ago. I cannot in good faith offer the explanation of it being a misunderstanding anymore: emily has revealed not only that she expressed consent to the interactions continuously and with assurances she was being honest throughout, but that she only brought it public because she got annoyed she saw a redditor talking about how chuggaconroy didnt have any scandals. They had already settled the miscommunications like adults months ago, before emily decided to stir up the pot then immediately go back to calmly tweeting about gundam. As a victim of online stalking and a survivor of sex abuse i am absolutely pissed bc this is going to make ppl a lot less likely to believe or express sympathy for actual victims, bc people were already wishing death upon emile the day the allegations dropped and the pushback to random death threats is pretty severe. Emily never told ppl not to harass emile whilst emile said for no one to harass emily and didnt throw an ounce of blame her way, and he's got death threats his way, but now a ton of transphobic shitstains are running around misgendering her and other trans women for the luls bc the situation tickled their fanciful fantasies of false accusations by a transfem. So now its gonna be way fucking worse for the rest of us survivors bc greatcheshire (emily) deliberately manufactured a controversy from wholecloth to smear someone she'd already resolved the miscommunication with as a sexual predator
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Bro I hate Twitter there's drama about an autistic YouTuber being a harasser when the only fucking screenshots are someone... typing like an obviously autistic person. He didn't understand that he was being ghosted and the person thought he was talking "creepy" or "weird". You ghosted him and didn't tell him. I'm so fucking angry. Fuck you Lady Emily. I see how you treat us. You don't even care because it's giving you attention. I fucking love having the anxiety that in the end even people who are my friends will think I type too autistic and hate me. Maybe someone on Tumblr will care and spread that it's all fucking false. All the evidence is just someone being awkward..... you disgust me.
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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.
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there are actually TWO countries that have used nuclear weapons in war. the second is france, which did “strategic nuclear testing” in algeria during and after the algerian war of independence.
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Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.
Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.
Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.
Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.
One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.
Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.
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whenever i have those brutal searing being-dissolved-from-inside period cramps during school or work i pretend i am a viking warlord who has been stabbed in the abdomen but i killed the assailant so i’m the only one who knows im injured and i have to carry on normally til the end of the battle to keep up my mens morale
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about to drop literally the sickest insider knowledge you will ever receive pls use it responsibly:
are you a teenager? do you wish you had the space & resources & organization to do a thing, whether that's an anime club or a movie night or a big craft workshop or creative writing group or literally whatever? would you like to do your thing totally for free? yes?
okay, then bring it up to a librarian
seriously, teenagers are the absolute hardest group to engage at most libraries & we'll often organize programs that absolutely no one will show up to & it sucks. if you go up to a public librarian & say "hey, some friends & i want to do this thing. does that sound like a feasible teen program for the library?" most people will move heaven & earth to pull it off for you because we know there's an interest in our community. we will go balls to the freaking wall to make it happen
do you want a cosplay contest? a video game tournament? a free escape room? bring it up to the library. it's not a burden or an annoyance at all. it'll be like christmas came early for us
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If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!
It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.
It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.
You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.
Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!
https://www.211.org/
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